What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB
Well after being under NDA for so long, I'm glad to be able to say that Amazon SimpleDB has gone into limited beta. Congratulations to everyone on the SDS / SimpleDB team; their several years of work...
Amazon Takes on Oracle and IBM With SimpleDB
Companies can now go ahead and fire their expensive database administrators—those engineers who keep the Oracle or IBM databases humming. Amazon has just added an enterprise-class database called Sim...
How to create custom ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1
With GarageBand 4.1.1 you can export your original song, your original audio recordings, or use Apple Loops and iLife jingles to create a custom ringtone for your iPhone. — Here's what you need to d...
A Year Later, the Same Scene: Long Lines for the Elusive Wii
SAN FRANCISCO — Linda Beattie is trying desperately to pay Nintendo $250, but the company is not cooperating. — Two weeks ago, Ms. Beattie went to a video game retailer in the Bay Area in search of ...
What's Wrong With Windows Mobile and How WM7 and WM8 Are Going to Fix It [What's Wrong With Windows Mobile]
We just got the scoop from Microsoft on Windows Mobile 7 and Windows Mobile 8, the two upcoming platforms that will fix what is undeniably broken about the Windows Mobile platform to date.
Googlepedia
Just to underscore the impetus behind the launch of Googlepedia - er, Knol - I went back to rerun a test I first ran over a year ago to see how high Wikipedia pages rank in a random set of Google sear...
T-Mobile blocks Twitter? (updated 12/14/07 9:17 PM CST)
After several days of no Twitter SMS service I contacted T-Mobile customer support. After the standard technical support for my phone (even though ALL phones on my account are denied access to Twitte...
The Fact And Fiction Of Sam Sethi
So Sam Sethi, former TechCrunch UK editor, announced the closing of his Blognation blog network today. Hey lays 100% of the blame for the failure on me personally. And while I agree with Mathew Ingr...
The skills you need to succeed
One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker. — In almost every job now, people use software and work ...
Petition Seeking My Recusal from Review
This statement responds to the "Complaint Requesting Recusal of the Federal Trade Commission Chairman From the Pending Review of the Proposed Google-Doubleclick Merger" …
Reader and Talk are Friends!
The Promise of Social Network Advertising
How much can social networks net? — Social networking is an Internet success story. — This year, 37% of the US adult Internet population used online social networking at least once a month. That ...
T-Mobile Turns Off Twitter?
Reports alleging T-Mobile has shut off Twitter for their customers are rolling in. Complaints have surfaced on T-Mobile's user forum on Satisfaction as well as several other personal blogs and forums...
Greedy Webkinz Infuriates Parents, Trashes Own Brand
One of the greatest online success stories of the past two years, Webkinz, has suddenly threatened its brand and annoyed its most important constituency (parents) by bombarding kids with ads. — The ...
The Attack On the Yahoo Vice Presidents: More Exec Departures
It's starting to feel like a murder mystery over at Yahoo these days, as one vice president after another drops off the senior management rolls at the Internet giant. — Next to go are VP of Media En...
Intel Reveals New Mobile SSD, UMPC Concepts, the Skulltrail Gaming Platform and Penryn and Santa Rosa Updates [Intel]
At Intel's Pre-CES briefing today, execs discussed a new super-small solid state drive, WiMax-capable devices, and 45nm Penryn chips in everything from UMPCs to television sets …
Amazon SimpleDB 101 & Why It Matters
Amazon continues to amaze us with its Amazon Web Services series of offerings. The latest is SimpleDB, which will be available in limited beta in a few weeks. And it is bound to have a major impact ...
N-Trig DuoSense in Dell Tablet to Power Other "Major Brand Notebooks" [Exclusive]
N-Trig makes the DuoSense technology that powers the Dell Latitude XT's touch-sensitive and pen-enabled display. This is the only input device in the market that combines a pressure-sensitive pen wit...
Verizon Launches FiOS TV in Oregon
Only TV Service Delivered Over Nation's Most Advanced, All-Fiber-Optic Network Straight to Consumers' Homes — Kevin Laverty, 425-261-5855 (o), 425-359-7598 (cell)
New Jackass film to receive web premiere
'Jackass 2.5', the third in the 'laddish' series of movies featuring Johnny Knoxville and copious amounts of nudity, is to become the first studio-backed feature film to receive its premiere on the we...
Microsoft strikes back at Opera antitrust claims
Microsoft on Friday denied antitrust claims by Opera Software that the software giant is abusing its dominant market position to lock users into the Internet Explorer Web browser. — Opera, based in ...
Sold Out Kindles Going For Up To $1,500 On Ebay
Amazon's new Kindle ebook device sold out almost immediately after going on sale. And there won't be any more available until after Christmas: … The device, which sells for $400, also is unavailable ...
N-Trig DuoSense in Dell Tablet to Power Other "Major Brand Notebooks" [DuoSense To Power Other Major Notebooks]
N-Trig makes the DuoSense technology that powers the Dell Latitude XT's touch-sensitive and pen-enabled display. This is the only input device in the market that combines …
Officially unlocked iPhones not really unlocked
It turns out that the officially (Apple-sanctioned) unlocked iPhone you bought for 649 Euros (about US$965) from Orange in France — which, according to some reports, accounts for up to 20% of total iP...
A sleek introduction of $299 laptops
A little-known Taiwanese firm that makes motherboards for brand-name PCs has put its own moniker on one of the lightest, sleekest, cheapest laptops ever to connect to cyberspace. — Today, Asus Techn...
Judge: Man can't be forced to divulge encryption passphrase
A federal judge in Vermont has ruled that prosecutors can't force a criminal defendant accused of having illegal images on his hard drive to divulge his PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) passphrase. — U.S. ...
Test your liver... with your phone
If you're worried that your liver could be in for some punishment this Christmas, then don't. Just reach for your mobile phone and check its health on the fly. — The mobile phone liver sensor — B...
Nintendo's Wii Rainchecks Mean You Get the Console Plus the Agonizing Wait [Nintendo]
Nintendo's Wii Rainchecks Mean You Get the Console Plus the Agonizing Wait — Kotaku's Brian Crecente is liveblogging a chat with Nintendo US honcho Reggie Fils-Aime, where the first order of busines...
Mobile makers shake up music biz
Nokia and Sony Ericsson threaten cellular carriers with their new music plans. — NEW YORK (Fortune Magazine) — Mobile operators are losing their grip on the mobile-music business. The latest threat...
How Goldman Won Big On Mortgage Meltdown
A Team's Bearish Bets Netted Firm Billions; A Nudge From the CFO — The subprime-mortgage crisis has been a financial catastrophe for much of Wall Street. At Goldman Sachs Group Inc., thanks to a ti...
Overnight Success
It may come as a surprise to many of us, but not Ray Ozzie, that he has won the war. While everyone from Nick Carr to the group of consultants known as the Enterprise Irregulars tilt at the Windmill ...
Cracking open the cybercrime economy
"Over the years, the criminal elements, the ones who are making money, making millions out of all this online crime, are just getting stronger and stronger. I don't think we are really winning this w...
CNET Sweeps
A couple weeks ago, Natalie Del Conte announced that she was leaving the Textra podcast (and PodShow in general) to join the New York branch of CNET. This seemed like a blow to Adam Curry's PodShow c...
Sethi: Everyone is to blame except me
Soap Opera 2., starring Blognation founder Sam Sethi, ended with a blockbuster today: Sam lays all the blame for the failure of the British blog network at the feet of TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington...
Hi-tech tools divide social sites
Social network sites are moving to make it much easier for software developers to write add-ons for the hugely popular web destinations. — Bebo, Facebook, Meebo and Friendster have unveiled plans to...
Throwing Out the Social Media Rulebook
Far too many of my colleagues who share a passion for the social media space treat this new media world more as a religion than as an art. Attending conferences, reading blogs, listening to podcasts,...
The sell phone for shoppers
A CAMERA phone that lets you snap an item you want, then orders it online is set to revolutionise the way Brits shop. — Step 1 ... take a snap of the item you fancy — The futuristic technology wil...